
Khawlah AbdAlla Spetan- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at University of Jordan
Khawlah AbdAlla Spetan
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at University of Jordan
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August 2019 - present
November 2005 - November 2016
Education
August 2001 - September 2005
August 1991 - September 1996
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Publications (15)
This research examines the nexus between renewable energy consumption, climate change, and economic growth across 88 countries, categorized by income levels (high, upper-middle, lower-middle, low, and Arab countries) from 1990-2020. Using the Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PARDL) model, the study captures both short- and long-term relationsh...
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the development of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI) (published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF)) for Arab countries according to their income levels and to assess the impact of the level of knowledge on economic growth and per capita GDP in Arab...
Objectives: This study aims to assess the impact of international trade measurements, trade liberalization, and other related variables on the Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) and Female Employment (FE) in the agricultural, industrial, and services sectors in Jordan from 1990 to 2019. Methods: The study adopts four models and uses the Fully...
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This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization measured by trade openness (OPN) and tariffs on women empowerment measured by the gender gap index and gender development index, for two groups of Arab countries divided based on their income levels using annual data for the period 1995–2020. The study also considers other factors t...
The objective of this study is to analyze the pull and push factors as determination of international migration from selected Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen) to western countries (Canada, France, Germany, Britain, USA), using Unbalanced Panel Data For the period of (19...
This study examines the impact of ownership structure on firm cash policy in varying cash holding regimes using 131 Jordanian nonfinancial firms listed on Amman Stock Exchange for the period 2005-2013. This paper allows for the possibility that the impact of explanatory variables can vary for different levels of cash holdings by utilizing a quantil...
This study inspects the causal relationship between renewable energy consumption, CO2 emissions, labor, capital and economic growth for Jordan over the period 1986-2012 within a multivariate framework. The time series cointegration test suggests a long-run equilibrium relationship among real GDP, renewable energy consumption, real gross fixed capit...
Jordan and Egypt are considered good examples for other countries in the MENA region as they stand up to the many challenges in the field of energy supply, which is still a burden to governments and a barrier for social and economic development in both countries. The high demand and consumption of energy, population growth, limited non‐renewable so...
Jordan and Egypt are considered good examples for other countries in
the MENA region as they stand up to the many challenges in the field of
energy supply, which is still a burden to governments and a barrier for
social and economic development in both countries. The high demand and
consumption of energy, population growth, limited non‐renewable so...
In this study we investigate the trade in services liberalization importance, and the
challenges that confront this important sector in Jordanian economy. Trade liberalization
has been considered as one of the major "policy reforms" undertaken by Jordan during the
last two decades, whereby it started to make commitments under bilateral, regional an...
A large body of empirical literature has explored the linkages between exports
diversification and output growth. However, empirical verification remains indecisive and
the topic remains open to discussion.
This paper examines the relationship between exports diversification and economic
growth in Jordan and group of Arab countries including Jordan...
Jordan is a small open country. In light of the contemporary globalization wave, it is crucial to examine world trade flows with Jordan and evaluate its trade performance. In this paper, sectoral and geographical compositions of Jordan exports by Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) categories were briefly analyzed. A remarkable struc...
Jordan is a small open country. In light of the contemporary globalization wave, it is
crucial to examine world trade flows with Jordan and evaluate its trade performance.
In this paper, sectoral and geographical compositions of Jordan exports by Standard
International Trade Classification (SITC) categories were briefly analyzed. A remarkable
struc...
The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of the successive high increases in oil prices during
the last few years on Jordanian industry.
The methodology used is based on the selection of industries with high consumption of energy
through industrial surveys, and then comparison is conducted for both products’ quantities and prices
before the i...